VIDEO: Skibbereen rower combines weightlifting and Irish dancing

MICHAEL Flatley, watch out, there’s a new dancer in town, and he’s a rower from Skibbereen.

Mark O’Donovan is quickly becoming an internet sensation after a video of the local rower showed him combining the arts of weightlifting and Irish dancing during a training session!

O’Donovan and fellow Skibb rower Shane O’Driscoll have their sights set on the 2016 Olympics in Rio next summer, and recently they won the B final of the men’s lightweight pair at the world senior rowing championships in France.

And with Mark’s unique and original training technique, this fleet-footed Skibbereen man might yet be dancing his way to Brazil… 

 

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A video posted by Mark OD (@modinaboat) on Apr 22, 2015 at 1:31pm PDT